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Health
Quarter 4- Module 7:
Planning for a Health Career

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I. Planning for a Health Career
• Explores the various health career paths and selects a particular health
career pathway based on personal competence and interest, that
participates in a health career orientation program. (H10PC-lVcd-3)
• Decides on an appropriate health career path (H10PC-lVc-d-4)

II. CONCEPT NOTES

Health Career Pathways

Career pathways are clusters occupations that are grouped because of shared skills.
All pathways include a variety of occupations that require different levels of education,
skills, and training. Selecting a career pathway provides you with an area of focus,
along with flexibility and variety of ideas to pursue for personal development.

Examples of Health Career Pathways

1. Disease Prevention and Control
People who specialize in this career path focus on communicable and non-
communicable diseases. Their works includes immunization, screening of newborn,
promotion of breastfeeding, infant diseases prevention, adolescent healthcare, and
life skills.

Sample Careers:
• Community Health Work
• Education and Research

2. Personal Healthcare
Professionals in this field perform healthcare related tasks in a personal care
level. These include monitoring patients, administering, and assisting in personal care
and hygiene; performing housekeeping duties; and advertising clients on related
healthcare issues like infant care, hygiene, and nutrition.
3. Maternal and Child Care
These health workers deal with complex public health issues that affect women,
children, and their families. These includes providing information on reproductive
health, family planning, health care of pregnant women and their children, and
improvement of health delivery system through advocacy, education, and research.
Sample Career:
• Midwifery
• Community Health Educator
• Outreach Specialist

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 4. Mental Health Care
These medical professionals specialize in dealing with interpersonal and
intrapersonal relationship and life skills. These includes cognitive and
psychosocial development, promotion of healthy self-esteem through feelings
anger management and identifying warning signs or red flags of learning
disorders, such as ADHD, anxiety, mood disorders, stress and bullying.
Sample Career:
• Social Work
• Clinical Psychology
• Psychiatry
• Guidance Counseling

5. Community Healthcare
Specialists in this are focus on the maintenance, protection and improvement
of the health of all community members.
Sample Career:
• Barangay/Community Health Work
• Rural Sanitary Inspection

6. Environmental Health Care Management

These health workers try to establish the correlation between and among the
physical, chemical, biological, social, and psychosocial factors in the surrounding
environment. These include monitoring the quality of environment and impact of
human activities on ecosystems and developing strategies for restoring ecosystems.
Sample Careers:
• Air quality monitoring
• Soil science analysis
• Hazardous and solid waste management
• Environmental noise control
• Radiological assessment

7. Drug Prevention and Control

People whose careers revolve around this area seek to reduce community and
individual problems related to alcohol and drug abuse through evidence-based
programs and policy advocacy.
Sample Career:
• Drug Enforcement
• Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation

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8. Nutrition
Specialists in this area find ways to balance individuals’ food and nutrition and
their impact on patient’s health. These includes meal planning, food preparation and
economics.
Sample Career:
• Clinical Dietetics
• Food and Nutrition management
• Public Health Nutrition
• Education and Research

9. Health Education
Those who work in this field are tasked with promotion of health care and
training of health workers on managing change in healthcare. Their work involves
assessing individual and community needs, planning, implementing, and evaluating
health programs, promoting the understanding of health-related behaviors plus
coordinating health education services.
Sample Career:
• Education and Research
• Community Health Work

10. Dental Health

Dental health workers deal with various oral conditions which includes chronic
mouth and facial pain, oral sores, periodontal (gum) disease, tooth decay and tooth
loss, other diseases and disorders that affect the oral cavity, and risk factors for oral
diseases which include unhealthy diet, tobacco use, harmful alcohol use and poor oral
hygiene.
Sample Career:
• Dental Hygiene
• Dental Nursing
• Dental health support

11. Occupational Safety

Careers in this path are related to the safety, health and welfare of
people engage in work or employment. These includes protecting workers
from sickness, disease and injury arising from possible hazards of their
employment and workplace.

Sample Career:
• Occupational and Safety Technician
• Health Inspector
• Industrial Hygienist

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12. Emergency Medical Services
People assigned in this work specialize in out-of-hospital medical care.
Their skills include first aid procedures, emergency medical treatment
and transport of patients, rapid emergency medical response and
immediate medical attention.

Sample Career:
• Emergency Medical Aid
• Paramedic

Who are the medical and allied health professionals?

1. Health Care Providers
- a person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or disability
2. Health Care Practitioners/Provider
- an independent health care provider who is licensed to practice on and
provide general and/or specialized care on a specific part of the body.
3. Allied Health Professional
- a trained health care provider practicing under supervision of a
physician or health care practitioners. These includes pharmacists,
dental hygienists and physical therapist and nurses.
What are the allied health professions that are present in the Philippines?
1. Audiologist
- identifies and rehabilitates hearing impairments and related disorders.
2. Chiropractor
-diagnosis and treats neuromuscular disorders with emphasis on
treatment through manual adjustment and/or manipulation of the spine.
3. Clinical Psychologist
-assesses, diagnosis, treats and helps prevent mental disorder.
4. Dietician or Nutritionist
-promotes good health through proper diet and treatment of diseases.
5. Emergency Medical Technician
-also known as ambulance technician; response quickly to any
emergency and life-threatening situation to immediately treat serious
injuries, physical or mental trauma to increase a patient’s chances of
survival.

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6. Guidance Counselor
- assists students with personal, family, education, and career decisions
and concerns; also helps them develop job-finding skills and other life
skills needed to prevent and deal with problems.
7. Health Educator
- specializes in health education and promotes the development of
health knowledge, life skills and positive attitudes towards the health and
well-being of students.
8. Massage Therapist
- performs the scientific manipulation of the tissues of the body for the
purpose of normalizing those tissues; uses manual techniques that
include applying fixed or movable pressure on affected parts of the body.
9. Medical Assistant
- performs, under the direction of the physician, various routine
administrative and non-technical tasks in hospitals, clinics and other
similar facilities.
10. Medical Technologist
- performs a variety of tasks on body fluids, from simple blood tests to
more complex tests to uncover abnormalities in the body, and underlying
causes of illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS, diabetes, and cancer which are
not easily detected through physical examination.
11. Midwife
-professionals with the expertise and skills in helping women maintain
healthy pregnancies, assist in or perform child birth delivery and health
in women recovery process through the post-partum period.
12. Nurse
- trained to provide care for people who are sick/injured; monitors
patient’s health and records symptoms, assist physicians during
examinations and treatment, and administer medication.
13. Occupational Therapist
- uses purposeful activity and interventions to maximize the
independence and health of any client who is limited by physical injury
or illness, cognitive impairment, psychosocial dysfunction, mental illness
or learning disability.
14. Orthotist/Prosthetist
- makes and fits prosthetics or artificial parts for the human body.

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15. Paramedic
- gives emergency medical treatment or assists medical professionals in
emergency situations.
16. Pharmacists
- prepare and dispenses medication prescribed by licensed health
professional; also provides information to patients regarding drugs, and
consults with health care professionals on advances in drugs or
medicine.
17. Physical Therapist
- examines, evaluates, and treats physical impairments through use of
special exercise, application of heat or cold, and other physical
modalities.

I. LEARNING TASKS

Learning Task 1:
Instructions: List 5 examples of health career provided/available in your
school/community/country for each health career pathways. Use the table below for
your answers. Use a long bond paper.

Health Career Pathways Health Career

Follow-up Questions:
1. What health careers are commonly available in your community?
2. What type of health career/s do you think is needed in your community? Explain.
Why?

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Learning Task 2:
Instructions: Create a poster that will promote a medical and allied health
professional as needed in our country during this pandemic. Use a separate sheet of
long bond paper for your poster.

Rubrics for Poster

CRITERIA EXCELLENT VERY FAIR POOR
SATISFACTOR
Y
Content Non-typical, Original, subject Subject is Lacks
unique, is of assigned weakly originality.
appropriate to topic, conveys a related to Does not
20 points chosen topic, message. assigned follow
conveys topic, assignment,
strong message message
message. unclear. incomplete or
disjointed.
Excellent Satisfactory use Lacks No creativity
creativity of creativity and creativity and in the
Creativity
using various use of various used minimal production of
materials and materials and materials and the collage.
properties. properties. properties.
15 points
Understandin Student’s Student’s work Student’s Student’s
g of the Topic work demonstrates work work lacks
demonstrates and demonstrates understandin
a complete understanding of some of the g of the
15 points understandin the assignment. understandin assignment.
g of the g of the
assignment assignment.
and goes
beyond the
requirements.
TOTAL: 50
POINTS

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Learning Task 3
Instructions: Complete the table below
How do you see yourself…?

Today After Senior High School After College

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ANSWER KEY

Learning Task 1

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Learning Task 2

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Learning Task 3

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Compiled by:

ALEXA CARYL M. ALMEDA

Teacher I

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